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Johnson13 Posted 13 years ago
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Lost or damaged coupons will not be reissued.
I hold up a coupon and on the back of it I find a condition which is stated in both English and Chinese.
The English version: Lost or damaged coupons will not be reissued.
The Chinese version's meaning is, if the customer has lost his coupon, he will not get a new one from the company.
But the English version seems strange and not idiomatic: A lost or damaged piece of paper is of course nowhere to be found; how can it be physically reissued? (going back to the hands of the company and being issued again to a customer?) But sometimes English can be idiomatic and at the same time illogical, so I hope you can tell me whether this usage is seen in English speaking countries.
The English version: Lost or damaged coupons will not be reissued.
The Chinese version's meaning is, if the customer has lost his coupon, he will not get a new one from the company.
But the English version seems strange and not idiomatic: A lost or damaged piece of paper is of course nowhere to be found; how can it be physically reissued? (going back to the hands of the company and being issued again to a customer?) But sometimes English can be idiomatic and at the same time illogical, so I hope you can tell me whether this usage is seen in English speaking countries.
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Johnson13 Lost or damaged coupons will not be reissued. This is very natural. It's just a sort of shorthand.
- Johnson13 Lost or damaged coupons will not be reissued.
- This is very natural.
- It's just a sort of shorthand.
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Johnson13Lost or damaged coupons will not be reissued.This is very natural. It's just a sort of shorthand.
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